External HDD Problems

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I know a few people on here have external hard drives for backing up stuff etc..

I have a Seagate 320gb external which is giving me grief! It has 200gb free and I am trying to put a 35gb file onto it, it just keeps telling me there isnt enough space on the drive :( Really doesnt make any sense.

Anyone else ever had a similar problem?
 
No...hmmm...

can you back-up what's already there and re-format the drive?
 
Nope no partition,

Arkady - yeah I could, but spent the whole of yesterday copying 100gb of other stuff over to format the laptop (which I am trying to get this 35gb file off) ...lol

Might have to in the end I guess :(

One thing I have noticed is that the drive I am copying it from only has 22gb free, could this be the problem? does it need to make some kind of duplicate of the file as it copies to the external or anything?
 
not that I'm aware of, but then I am a total 'Puta biff...
 
That's a point - I reformatted both my external drives to conform with that on my PC. NTFS.
 
Cheers! Now you have said that it rings a bell :(

Luckily it was a file that can be re-made....so I think I am going to try and remake it rather than try and covert it - as there is stuff on the external I really cant loose :(

Thanks for you help everyone :)
 
The convert command doesn't lose any data so should you should be ok. Having said that i've not tried using it on an external drive.
 
The file system sounds right. NTFS is the better system to use so if you can use it you really should.
 
Yeah all my internal hard drives are NTFS - this one came as FAT32 for some reason :(
 
All HDD are pre-formatted FAT32 in the factory.
 
All external HDD are preformatted FAT32 because its a well supported standard compatible on pretty much anything. Whereas NTFS is really only supported on Microsoft systems.
 
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